<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Also, NPR only seems more intellectual because its competition is pop music and "morning shows" run by two aging burnouts named Jack Dingo and Toadstool. <br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Aug 11, 2011, at 10:16 AM, Antonin Scriabin <<a href="mailto:kierkegaurdian@gmail.com">kierkegaurdian@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I agree about the gulags!<br><br>Anyways, this list is especially embarrassing since NPR listeners have a (vague) reputation for being intellectuals, and a cut above the typical reader. Guess not. I see a lot of stuff on the list that I was really into when I was 8-10 (Terry Brooks, David Eddings, etc.), then quickly outgrew when I realized that there was vastly superior science fiction and fantasy out there. I think a lot of the voting that went into this list was fueled by the nostalgia of people who never "grew-up" out of the formative junk that a lot of us cut our sci-fi teeth on as kids.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Lane Haygood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lhaygood@gmail.com"><a href="mailto:lhaygood@gmail.com">lhaygood@gmail.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
This has shaken my faith in the correctness of democracy.<br>
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I mean, would it be SO terrible to force people into good literature<br>
gulags? Eighteen hours a day, reading away, lulled to silence by the<br>
gentle crack of the overseer's whips?<br>
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I mean, people put "The Sword of Truth" and those drecky "Forgotten<br>
Realms" novels ahead of Wolfe and Mieville? They NEED re-education.<br>
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On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Greg Bates <<a href="mailto:gregory.a.bates@gmail.com"><a href="mailto:gregory.a.bates@gmail.com">gregory.a.bates@gmail.com</a></a>> wrote:<br>
> Well, at least it beat the EU Star Wars tripe. By one spot. :-(<br>
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> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Antonin Scriabin<br>
> <<a href="mailto:kierkegaurdian@gmail.com"><a href="mailto:kierkegaurdian@gmail.com">kierkegaurdian@gmail.com</a></a>> wrote:<br>
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>> <a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-books" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-books">http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-books</a></a><br>
>><br>
>> The Book of the New Sun clocked in at #87. Appalling original list, and<br>
>> terrible final results, but at the end of the day, maybe people will check<br>
>> out Wolfe after seeing his book listed here.<br>
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